Management of Complex Systems (MCS)
Professor Abatzoglou is interested in the hows and whys of climate and weather, and also the so whats. His lab's work spans many topics - from addressing questions on climate variability, to understanding climate impacts on natural resources, to developing climate datasets and tools.
- Digital platforms
- Sharing economy
- Service delivery
- Diversity and teams
- Organizational behavior
Professor Castro is interested in the capacity of attention under cognitive workload, particularly in the context of technology and multitasking. He focuses on the validity of reaction time and accuracy as measures of different aspects of workload, as well as quantifying the risk of adverse outcomes due to these workload metrics in driving. He employs advanced cognitive modeling techniques to examine the mechanisms of attentional capacity, multitasking, and performance.
- Parks and protected areas
- Outdoor recreation
- Visitor use management
- Socio-ecological systems
- Geographic information systems
Professor Kolden's research focuses on characterizing and understanding wildfire intersections with the human-environment system through geospatial, temporal, and mixed-methods approaches.
- Innovation Practice
- Technological Innovation
- Collaboration and interaction in organizations
- Sustainable and inclusive innovation
- Qualitative research
- Organization studies
- Service science
- Human-computer interaction
- Distributed cognition
Entrepreneurship theory with elements of cognitive science and philosophy
- Political ecology
- Climate change mitigation in tropical forests
- Climate finance
- Global environmental governance
- Indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge
- Common property resource management
- Climate justice
- Nature-based solutions
- Climate communication, outreach and engagement
- Regional expertise: Mexico and the Amazon (Ecuador, Peru, Guyana)
- Innovation
- Careers
- Complexity
- Models of science
LeRoy Westerling
Professor, Department Chair, Management of Complex Systems
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SSM 232 Research Website
- Applied climatology
- Climate-ecosystem-wildfire interactions
- Statistical modeling for seasonal forecasts, paleofire reconstructions and climate-change impact assessments
- Resource management and policy
- Economics of information systems
- Security and privacy
- Knowledge management
- Decision support
- Behavioral operations
